Berlin-Lichtenberg : First Indoor Surf facility will open in Berlin

The beginner wave in Malibu, California, alas, but always pretty crowded. In the sea off Maui, Hawaii, swirls it for a time around like in a washing machine, and Bang, down against the reef. And on the beach of Las Canteras, Gran Canaria, were the waves too rough, since this is the only push was to let the white water of the broken wave. But now the ocean is brought to Berlin, drift safe and reef free, with a bathing temperature, including a Restaurant and a Bar, a sustainable surf shop, beer garden, and surf Board workshop: In the spring of 2019, an Indoor Surf facility will open up the "shaft work", on the site of the Berliner wasserbetriebe in the Landsberger Allee.

In the group of various wave-rider the wanted to build something like that in Berlin, inside and out, their plans were but gone with the wind like sea Spray in the storm series, the wave factory Team, say the two women and five men from Berlin at the age of 25 to 35 years. Experts in Economics or law Background, others have experience in International Business and in the catering industry. It is what will, because this time there is the building permit, this time the financing, this time the Kits are gone.

Soft case without reef and stones

Now the big trades to come, the wood floor installation on the 1000 square meters large hall from the times of the GDR. There, next door to the skydiving tower "Windobona". And then it takes only a few weeks, until the wave city wave will be installed on. And it works like this: water in a closed System is accelerated to a certain speed of flow, and a hydraulic ramp is being driven to the full width as a resistor, depending on the skill level.

he Who falls, the case is soft, since neither reef Sand and stone. Helmet or knee pads are not needed, since the walls and the Board are soft. Even the fin that the Board considers in the track, is made of soft plastic. But also with their own surf boards, Long or short boards, SUP, stand-up paddlers, or with body boards and water sports enthusiasts in the shaft. And not laboriously against the breaking wave, and then rinsed to be paddling. But just on the edge of the pool, the feet already on the Board, just gently lift the hands at the beginning, for safety's sake on a support rod.

urban Surfing saves the wave riders travel far and wide

Since the magic Moment is void, as early as possible on the water before the Wind begins to sit on the Board, the tender first, then growing, rearing up to feel under itself, then just before the breaking wave, to paddle and to catch them in fact, so-and-so to stand, that the power of nature takes you. The urban Surf saves the 20,000 active shaft, the travel tabs to the anyway much to small and much to short waves at the Baltic sea or a long Tour to the island of Sylt, or even further to Klitmöller in Denmark, where there is the Europe of Berlin close to most "real" waves. Advanced users can make in Lichtenberg, on a 1.50-Meter-high wave is a, well, a big wave.

To the holistic concept of the wave operator belongs to offer of gastronomy, and the Name should ever be called – Robert Havemann, with a new edition of "RosaLisbert" (Berlin master chefs) and an offshoot of the Velvet Bar, Bar of the year 2019. And what about the Ecology? The facility runs on green energy, and the driving with the diesel bus to the surf spot is. In addition, an innovative heat recovery system was developed, in order to save a large part of the generation of the wave energy expended in the best possible way. The System is economical, to say to the operator, in the Shop there is almost only recycled, organic and sustainable products, and articles from manufacturers, the plastic(garbage)reduction and sea clean-up actions.

the old East Germany-Halle on the former site of the Berlin water company to the Landsberger Allee from the spring of 2019...photo: promo

Oh, and then what is there. Olympia. Is surfing in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic, because it is already trained on a city the wave-plant-for-the sea. It will offer the shaft work of the DOSB as an Olympic training base. And Paralympia? Because you wanted to work with disabled sports associations closely together. Except in Berlin, you can be outside without the sea only at the Eisbach in Munich, in the local on-the-Fly - and surf the centre of Jochen Schweitzer into the water, then in Vienna and Zurich in the summer. In addition, there are waves in shopping centers in Lucerne and in Tel Aviv. City wave systems such as in Berlin, in Moscow and near Seattle. Two competitors, there is probably currently in the planning phase, for Potsdam, and a stationary wave garden in a lake in Berlin, the implementation is rather not close.

And if the Lichtenberger wave does not break time? Then the surfboard forge, and a motorcycle manufactory.

wave's work, beginning in the spring of 2019, Landsberger Allee 270, 10367 Berlin phone: 030 20456226 , wellenwerk-berlin.de

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Dancing with the water, so feels Surfing, out there in nature. Inside it has what. On the occasion of the imminent opening of the shaft drive, we offer ten readers the Chance to Surf for an hour in the shaft factory a try.

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